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Dr Aziz Anzabi -is a painter, sculptor, film makeup artist, poet, author and a Family counsellor. Anzabi is a contemporary artist from Iran, currently living in the UK. Aziz's unique vision separates him from other artists. Works like “Battle” and “Sad But True” show his concerns about social problems through demonstrating issues such as war and immigration through his paintings and sculptures.

Life Dr Anzabi was born on the 18th July 1970 in Tehran, Iran. He finished his education on the subject of family counselling with a PHD level in Azad University of Tehran. Aziz also went to an institute for the intellectual development of children and young adults for painting classes. In his childhood Aziz was apprenticed to Mohammad Farahani one of the professors of the coffeehouse style. The effect of the coffeehouse style and it’s religious themes had a significant impact on Anzabi's life and his works. His works are often categorized into periods. The most commonly accepted period in his work is the period of childhood and teenage-hood, period of tension, colour and war, period of moving in dimension and period of immigration. The painting, “life that is forgotten” is one of the clearest paintings in the period of immigration that Aziz has produced .This painting uses Surrealism and Qajar art symbols to represent immigration from one’s own society to a new community which foreign to them. There is no doubt that Aziz's childhood and his experience of being a teenager who grew up in the war between Iraq and Iran in the 1980s, as well as losing many friends, had a deep impact on both his emotions and his works. These events led to his period of "black and white" where his art was solely in black and white. In this specific period we can point out his black and white abstracts and grey collages created by using pictures of war from newspapers to show how war and loss of friends had impacted his life. Aziz was born in an average Iranian family. His parents were originally born in Russia however, they had to immigrate to Iran when they were children. His dad had a strong role in influencing Dr.Anzabi to work with visual art. Aziz's dad had a different view though compared to the people during the same era. His dad's tendency towards building items with stone and cement was one way Aziz was drawn to visual art. In the year 1988 after Aziz entered the teacher training course and passed his education, a new period started in his life, which is distinguishable in his works. The habit of him using more of quantities in his work was a basis for him to turn to the art of sculpting. With going to professors like Bahman Azar Fahimi, Aziz grew a liking to FX film makeup artist. In the year 1990 onwards Aziz had spent most of his time learning and doing makeup .With the presence of professor doctor Mahin Meehan and Professor Jalaledin Moayerian, Aziz accomplished being a good makeup artist. The result of Aziz working with makeup in these years led to more than 80 theatres, films and T.V. series which he took part in either as a designer or a makeup artist. Aziz's acquaintance with Iranian contemporary artist Bahman Moasses, led him to discover other influential artists such as Sohrab Sepehri, who radically impacted his vision during the 1990s. Bahman's beliefs and visuals completely changed Aziz's outlook on visual art, leading him to experiment with different themes and techniques. He became fascinated with the idea of peeling paper on canvas, which was an ancient technique used by Iranian artists to illustrate minute details on the canvas. By mastering this unique technique and finding a passion in political matters, Aziz Anzabi became a fully committed lucid embodiment of a new form of violent poetic activism. The relationship of Aziz with people like Nami Petgar, Hossein Kashian, Parvaneh sepehri and Hossein Panahi had a lot to do with colour returning to Aziz's works. They also had a big share in helping Aziz to have movement, form and variety in his paintings. Works like knotted forms of sculpture and two coloured paintings can be the symbols of this period. The attachment of Aziz to Surrealism and specially Salvador Dali's style has a really vast effect on the way Aziz displays paint on Canvas. He uses Sohrab Sepehri's poems for the theme of his works and believed that Sohrab's poems was another form of what Dali wanted to show in his works. His father’s death in the year 1999 made Aziz very stagnated and Inactive in any art related works. These years of uncertainty made Aziz turn to mysticism and research the lives of master sophists of Iran, which carried on until 2009. At the end of 2010 he was forced to immigrate. However this event made Aziz turn back to visual art and also to have a new sense of purpose to raise awareness about social issues through his works.

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Doctor Aziz Anzabi is a painter, sculptor, film make-up artist, poet, author and Family counsellor doctoral. Aziz is one of the contemporary artists from Iran living in UK right now. Aziz's unique vision separates him from other artists. works like Battle and Sad But True show his concerns about social problems.

Early life
Anzabi was born on the 18th July 1970 in Iran capital, city Tehran. He finished his education on the subject family counselling with a PHD level in Tehran. Aziz also went to Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults for painting classes. In his childhood Aziz was apprenticed to Mohammad Farahani one of the professors of the Pictures coffee house style. The effect of pictures coffee house style religious theme had a significant impact on Anzabi's soul. And his thoughts were always trapped with this theme.

Periods
Aziz's works are often categorized into periods. The most commonly accepted periods in his work are the period of childhood and teenage hood, period of tension, colour and war, period of moving in dimension and period of emigration. We can accept the fact that Aziz is currently one of the hardest working artists. The painting, life that is forgotten is one of the most clear paintings in the period of immigration that Aziz has produced .This painting has the effects of surrealismand Qajar art symbols which try to represent immigration from his own society to a new community which was foreign to him. There is no doubt that Aziz's childhood and teenage hood growing up in the Iran–Iraq War 1980 plus losing many friends has had a deep effect on his emotions .These events had led him to produce works of art that was in black and white. In this specific period we can point out his black and white abstracts and grey collages with using pictures of war ripped from a newspaper to show how war and loss of friends had impacted his art.

Family
Aziz is from one of the average Iranian families. His dad and mum were originally born in Russia however they had to immigrate to Iran when they were still kids. His dad had a strong role in leading Anzabi to work with visual art. Aziz's dad had a different view though compared to the people during the same era. His dad's tendency towards building items with stone and cement was one way Aziz was drawn to visual arts.

After 1988
In the year 1988 after Aziz entered the teacher training course and passed his education a new period started in his life. This is able to be seen in his works. The habit of him using more of quantities in his work was a basis for him to turn to the art of sculpting. With going to professors like Bahman Azar Fahimi Aziz grew a liking to FX film make-up artist. In the year 1990 and after that Aziz spent most of his time learning and doing make-up .With the presence of professor doctor Mahin Meehan and Professor Jalaledin Moayerian. Aziz accomplished being a good make-up artist. The result of Aziz working with the subject make-up in these years led to more than 80 theatres, films and T.V. series which he took part in either as a make-up designer or a make-up artist.

Part of life
Aziz's acquaintance with Iranian contemporary artist Bahman Moasses, led him to discover other influential artists such as Sohrab Sepehri, who radically impacted his vision during the 1990s. Bahman's beliefs and visuals completely changed Aziz's outlook on visual art, leading him to experiment with different themes and techniques. He became fascinated with the idea of peeling paper on canvas, which was an ancient technique used by Iranian artists to illustrate minute details on the canvas. By mastering this unique technique and finding a passion in political matters, Aziz Anzabi became a fully committed lucid embodiment of a new form of violent poetic activism. The relationship of Aziz with people like Nami Petgar, Hossein Kashian, Parvaneh sepehri and Hossein Panahi had a lot to do with colour returning to Aziz's works. They also had a big share in helping Aziz to have movement, form and variety in his paintings. Works like knotted forms of sculpture and two coloured paintings can be the symbols of this period. The attachment of Aziz to Surrealism and specially Salvador Dali's style has a really vast effect on the way Aziz displays paint on Canvas. He uses Sohrab Sepehri's poems for the theme of his works and believed that Sohrab's poems was another form of what Dali wanted to show in his works. His father’s death in the year 1999 made Aziz very stagnated and Inactive in any art related works. These years of uncertainty made Aziz turn to mysticism and research the lives of master sophists of Iran, which carried on until 2009. At the end of 2010 he was forced to immigrate. However this event made Aziz turn back to visual art and also to have a new sense of purpose to raise awareness about social issues through his works.

The relationship with Aziz and people like Nami Petgar, Hossein Kashian, Parvaneh sepehri and Hossein Panahi had a lot to do with colour returning on Aziz's works. They also had a big share in helping Aziz to have movement, form and variety in his paintings. Works like knotted forms of sculpture and 2 coloured paintings can be the symbols of this period. The attachment of Aziz to Surrealism style and specially Salvador Dali'sstyle had a really vast effect on the way Aziz displayed paint on Canvas. He used Sohrab Sepehri's poems for the theme of his works and believed that Sohrab's poems was another form of what Dali wanted to show in his works. His father’s death in the year 1999 made Aziz very stagnated and Inactive in any art related works. These years of uncertainty made Aziz turn to mysticism and research the lives of sophists of Iran and this period carried on until 2009. At the end of 2010 he was forced to immigrate to U.K. However this event made Aziz turn back to visual art and this can be seen in his works.